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Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”

July 23, 2020 08:00 ET

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To Gmail, Most Black Lives Matter Emails Are“Promotions”

Google shuffled mass emails about racial justice into the marketing tab in our test, mirroring its categorization of politicalemails

July 2, 2020 08:00 ET

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Swinging the Vote?

Google’s black box algorithm controls which political emails land in your main inbox. For 2020 presidential candidates, the differences are stark.

February 26, 2020 06:00 ET

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How We Examined Gmail’s Treatment of PoliticalEmails

We conducted an experiment with a new email address to try to figure out how Gmail's sorting algorithm worked without user input

February 26, 2020 06:00 ET